Discourses: How to Explain Your Job to Different People

Sometimes, just sometimes, College Humor has something academic to offer. The following comic is a great illustration for explaining how the idea of discourse community works: we use different languages to communicate with different groups of audience. Okay, I have done enough damage to a non-academic material already. Here you go:

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My bachelor’s degree is in Advertising. Having completed an MA in English and MS in Mass Communications in May 2014, I continued to pursue a PhD in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota. I achieved PhD candidacy in 2016. I’ll be defending my dissertation Spring 2019.